Publication & Outputs

All outputs of the project, including dissemination

Publications

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    Maggi, Mauro. 2025 [2026]. “Main and subsidiary initials in siddham: on the structure of the Jīvakapustaka (manuscript Ch.ii.003)”. In: Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University 29: 237-260.

  • 2
    Del Tomba, Alessandro & Silvia Luzzietti. 2026. “From Khotanese to Sanskrit and Back: A Linguistic Analysis of the Sanskrit Jīvakapustaka and Its Implications for Late Khotanese Morphophonology”. In: Indo-Iranian Journal 69.2: 91–126.
  • 3

    Del Tomba, Alessandro. 2025. “The phonology of r and rr in Khotanese”. In: Journal of the American Oriental Society 145.4: 735–761.

  • 4

    Del Tomba, Alessandro. 2025. “The palaeography of r and rr in Khotanese”. In: Journal Asiatique 313.1: 39–77.

Conferences

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    Del Tomba, Alessandro. “Sociolinguistica storica del khotanese nel contesto centroasiatico. Section of the Project: Khotanese Language and Texts in Context (KhoTxt)”. Special lecture, Doctorate School in Civilizations of Asia and Africa, Sapienza University of Rome, May 15, 2026.

  • 2

    Michetti, Francesca. “From Hellenistic Chanceries to Kushan Royal Inscriptions: Tracing the Roots of Bactrian Literacy”. Special Lecture, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, April 15, 2026.

  • 3
    Del Tomba, Alessandro. “A lost verbal stem in Khotanese: The prehistory of *jsīn- ‘to kill’ and its nominal derivatives”. Workshop on non-finite verbal forms in ancient Indo-European languages,Università per Stranieri di Siena, Siena, February 05–06, 2026.
  • 4
    Del Tomba, Alessandro and Marco Fattori. “The origin of Late Khotanese metrics”. Beyond the Mountains. Ancient Languages in and around the Tarim Basin, Peking University, Beijing, September 20–21, 2025.
  • 5
    Del Tomba, Alessandro. “The periodisation of Khotanese and the KhoTxt project” (Lecture). Peking University, Beijing, September 19, 2025.
  • 6
    Del Tomba, Alessandro. “The Jīvakapustaka: Manuscript transmission, new methodology, and linguistic analysis” (Lecture, Invited). Peking University, Beijing, September 18, 2025.
  • 7

    Del Tomba, Alessandro and Marco Fattori. “Unveiling Late Khotanese metre”. 35th Deutscher Orientalistentag DOT 2025, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, September 08–12, 2025.

Other

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    Del Tomba, Alessandro. “Introduction to the historical grammar of Khotanese”. Summer School of Indo-European languages: Middle Indic and Middle Iranian, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, August 24–29, 2025. Four-lesson class: Cultural introduction, palaeography and orthography, historical phonology and morphology.